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Greetings everyone,
I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! I read all the reviews on neweggs site about it, and, it had nothing but rave reviews OVER the 6600GT which had mostly bad reviews. Is there something I'm missing here? All the reviews said they had an "out of the box" improvement over their prior cards, however, my benchmarks in aquamark3d and 3dmark dropped by like ohhhhhhh 3,000 points yes, that's not a typo thats threee thousand points. I even tried using the coolbits, and the overclocking tab in the Nvidia settings windows to no avail...... Is this just a POS compared to the 9800 pro? Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I have always been an NVidia kinda guy, but jumped ship with the 9800 pro because it was "the best" back when..... and, I assumed that the 6600 would at least be a step up from it, especially with 256mb of memory. After 5 hours of having the card I'm ready to bite the $27 restocking fee and return it, and get something different. Any ideas? {SFU} Jackyl MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Athlon XP2500 ATI Radeon 9800 pro ------ replaced by MSI NX6600/256 stupid me 1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC |
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I have not heard of that card. But you might of got a bad one. Are the clock
and memory speeds as stated in the ad ? Use the RivaTuner to see what the actual settings are. I personally do not like coolbits. RivaTuner seems to work a lot better and easier.. wrote in message ... Greetings everyone, I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! I read all the reviews on neweggs site about it, and, it had nothing but rave reviews OVER the 6600GT which had mostly bad reviews. Is there something I'm missing here? All the reviews said they had an "out of the box" improvement over their prior cards, however, my benchmarks in aquamark3d and 3dmark dropped by like ohhhhhhh 3,000 points yes, that's not a typo thats threee thousand points. I even tried using the coolbits, and the overclocking tab in the Nvidia settings windows to no avail...... Is this just a POS compared to the 9800 pro? Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I have always been an NVidia kinda guy, but jumped ship with the 9800 pro because it was "the best" back when..... and, I assumed that the 6600 would at least be a step up from it, especially with 256mb of memory. After 5 hours of having the card I'm ready to bite the $27 restocking fee and return it, and get something different. Any ideas? {SFU} Jackyl MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Athlon XP2500 ATI Radeon 9800 pro ------ replaced by MSI NX6600/256 stupid me 1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC |
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wrote in message ... Greetings everyone, I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! A straight 6600 isn't really any improvement over a 9800 Pro. A 6600GT is. You seem to be under the impression that your card is a 6600GT. It isn't. Here's a bench of your card and the actual MSI 6600GT and a 9800 Pro. http://www.overclockers.co.nz/ocnz/r...00gf6600gt0406 |
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:27:39 GMT, wrote:
Greetings everyone, I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! I read all the reviews on neweggs site about it, and, it had nothing but rave reviews OVER the 6600GT which had mostly bad reviews. Is there something I'm missing here? All the reviews said they had an "out of the box" improvement over their prior cards, however, my benchmarks in aquamark3d and 3dmark dropped by like ohhhhhhh 3,000 points yes, that's not a typo thats threee thousand points. I even tried using the coolbits, and the overclocking tab in the Nvidia settings windows to no avail...... Is this just a POS compared to the 9800 pro? Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I have always been an NVidia kinda guy, but jumped ship with the 9800 pro because it was "the best" back when..... and, I assumed that the 6600 would at least be a step up from it, especially with 256mb of memory. After 5 hours of having the card I'm ready to bite the $27 restocking fee and return it, and get something different. Any ideas? {SFU} Jackyl MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Athlon XP2500 ATI Radeon 9800 pro ------ replaced by MSI NX6600/256 stupid me 1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC Sounds like you have it backwards. The 6600GT is better than a standard 6600. Usally the 256MB version is slower than the 128MB. The reviews about 6600GT beating the 9800 Pro are right, but it's not enough to be considered an upgrade. The standard 6600 would be a downgrade from a 9800 Pro. I'd at least get a standard 6800 (not a 6800LE, or other crrippled varient) to do better. |
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wrote in message ... Greetings everyone, I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! hang on, let me get this right, you bought a 6600 to replace your 9800 pro ? lol maybe next time you should do your own research instead of listening to poeple say, oh yes this is a brilliant piece of hardware, buy one now ! |
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Greetings everyone, I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! It will be, dickhead. You bought a 6600, not a 6600GT. It's about 2/3 of the speed. I read all the reviews on neweggs site about it, and, it had nothing but rave reviews OVER the 6600GT which had mostly bad reviews. Is there something I'm missing here? Yeah, two letters G T. All the reviews said they had an "out of the box" improvement over their prior cards, however, my benchmarks in aquamark3d and 3dmark dropped by like ohhhhhhh 3,000 points yes, that's not a typo thats threee thousand points. I even tried using the coolbits, and the overclocking tab in the Nvidia settings windows to no avail...... Is this just a POS compared to the 9800 pro? Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I have always been an NVidia kinda guy, but jumped ship with the 9800 pro because it was "the best" back when..... and, I assumed that the 6600 would at least be a step up from it, especially with 256mb of memory. You assumed wrong. After 5 hours of having the card I'm ready to bite the $27 restocking fee and return it, and get something different. Any ideas? BUY A ****ING 6600GT. You read the reviews of the GT then went and bought a plain 6600. That's about as clever as reading reviews of a 9800 Pro then going and buying a 9800SE and complaining that it isn't as quick. -- Conor "You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras. |
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I now am the proud owner of a 6600GT..
One thing to say WOW The scores I have managed to get on 3DMark03 absolutely blew away my 9800XT 9800XT was 4078 and the 6600GT was 8315 ! http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4361128 wrote in message ... Greetings everyone, I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! I read all the reviews on neweggs site about it, and, it had nothing but rave reviews OVER the 6600GT which had mostly bad reviews. Is there something I'm missing here? All the reviews said they had an "out of the box" improvement over their prior cards, however, my benchmarks in aquamark3d and 3dmark dropped by like ohhhhhhh 3,000 points yes, that's not a typo thats threee thousand points. I even tried using the coolbits, and the overclocking tab in the Nvidia settings windows to no avail...... Is this just a POS compared to the 9800 pro? Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I have always been an NVidia kinda guy, but jumped ship with the 9800 pro because it was "the best" back when..... and, I assumed that the 6600 would at least be a step up from it, especially with 256mb of memory. After 5 hours of having the card I'm ready to bite the $27 restocking fee and return it, and get something different. Any ideas? {SFU} Jackyl MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Athlon XP2500 ATI Radeon 9800 pro ------ replaced by MSI NX6600/256 stupid me 1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC |
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